Head of Design

ANINE BING is looking for a Head of Design to join its Design team based in Paris.

The Head of Design is the creative visionary behind ANINE BING’s collections, embodying the brand’s core values of creativity, quality, and empowerment. This leader drives innovation while ensuring consistency across all designs, maintaining the brand’s signature aesthetic, and pushing boundaries to keep ANINE BING at the forefront of attainable luxury fashion.

The ideal candidate is a strategic and forward-thinking creative with a deep understanding of contemporary fashion and the ability to translate brand DNA into elevated collections. They are a strong leader with the ability to inspire, mentor, and guide a high-performing team, ensuring each collection is both trend-relevant and commercially successful.

Responsibilities Include:

• Develop and execute the creative vision for ANINE BING’s ready-to-wear collections, ensuring alignment with brand identity and business objectives.
• Lead and mentor the design team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Oversee the end-to-end design process, from concept ideation to final product, ensuring quality and consistency across all categories.
• Collaborate closely with merchandising, production, and marketing teams to create collections that balance creative vision with commercial viability.
• Research and analyze fashion trends, emerging technologies, and consumer insights to inform design strategies and maintain market relevance.
• Ensure all designs reflect ANINE BING’s attainable luxury positioning, focusing on premium fabrics, craftsmanship, and effortless silhouettes.
• Represent ANINE BING at industry events, collaborations, and key brand moments, reinforcing the brand’s influence in the fashion space.

Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience in fashion design, with a strong background in contemporary or luxury womenswear.
• Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design or a related field preferred.
• Proven track record of leading and developing high-performing creative teams.
• Deep understanding of garment construction, textile development, and the full product lifecycle.
• Strong ability to blend creativity with commercial awareness, ensuring collections resonate with the ANINE BING customer.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Fluent in English & French.

Working at ANINE BING

ANINE BING seeks to empower its employees by providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Diversity and inclusion is critical to our success as a global brand, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

More about ANINE BING

ANINE BING is a Los Angeles-based fashion house started in 2012 that blends elements of Scandinavian simplicity with American energy to offer modern wardrobe essentials for women seeking a timeless yet rebellious approach to everyday style. Since its launch, ANINE BING has built a global brand represented across 90+ countries, including brick-and-mortar retail stores in cities worldwide.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, ANINE BING has over 200 employees and is backed by key investors, which include Index Ventures founder Danny Rimer (Facebook, Dropbox, Roblox, Net-A-Porter), Greycroft Partners founder Dana Settle (Bumble, Cuyana, Farfetch), and Felix Capital founder Frederic Court (Goop, Farfetch, Vitrue, Dailymotion).